Dueling Sleepy Hollow Series Being Developed by Fringe, Missing Teams

Now don’t lose your head over this, but a drama series (or two!) based on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow may soon find its way to network TV.

Two concepts, both called Sleepy Hollow, are circulating in Hollywood as development season begins, per our sister site Deadline.com. The first, from Missing writers Grant Scharbo and Patrick Macmanus, is in talks with The CW. That one offers a modern view of Washington Irving’s classic horror tale by making protagonist Ichabod Crane into an FBI agent who travels to the titular town to check out a beheading.

The second, created by Fringe and Hawaii Five-0 producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, also offers a modern take on the spooky short story first published in the 1800s about Crane’s mysterious run-in with a headless horseman. That project has landed at Fox with a pilot committment, Deadline reports.

Something similar happened last year with Beauty and the Beast: ABC and The CW both produced girl-meets-shaggy-guy pilots, but The CW’s version was the only one to make it to the fall schedule.

It seems Once upon a Time and Grimm most likely came about due to shows such as Supernatural, Vampire Diaries, True Blood, etc. Every network wants in on the fantasy/supernatural/sci-fi genre. (In my opinion, when Grimm was first introduced, I thought it was too similar to what Supernatural was in the first few seasons. Supernatural had urban legends and fairy tales, while Grimm deals with just the fairy tales.) However, this isn’t anything new. It’s always been part of the tv show evolution. A show comes out that is different from anything else on, and by the next season, each network has their own version of it. I remember times when I couldn’t change the channel without coming across medical dramas, then another time it was all legal dramas.

they should make a series based on Christopher Golden and Ford Lytle Gilmore’s series The Hollow. Basically about a brother and sister who are descendent of Ichabod Crane and when they move to Sleepy Hollow they break a curse that kept the Horseman away from the town and in turn releases a ton of different supernatural beings. Basically this would work best probably on CW alongside Vampire Diaries and Supernatural. The series is four books long but easily could be continued and made longer

the CW version has potential and could be paired with a lot of the shows in the 2013-2014 season
Supernatural(because of the horror/creature mysteries)
The Vampire Diaries (because of the supernatural happenings in small town aspect) Beauty and the Beast (because of it’s procedural crime aspect…if this survives)